Karin Lynn Carter and Thomas Joseph Gonzales were married May 27 in Glen Ellyn. She is the daughter of George and Judie Carter of Lombard. He is the son of Thomas and Pamela Gonzales of Ypsilanti, Mich. The bride received a degree in economics and master's in economic geography from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She is a senior consultant for Information Resources Inc. The groom graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology and master's in physical therapy.

Until last week, Karin E. Peterson, 104, of Elgin, lived in her own apartment, balanced her own checkbook, wrote letters to family and friends and cooked her own meals, said her family. Mrs. Peterson died Tuesday in Sherman Hospital, Elgin. In 1901, Mrs. Peterson, her mother and sister boarded a ship and sailed to New York from Sweden and eventually arrived by horse and buggy in Pennsylvania to join her father. Within a few years, her family had moved to Woodstock, Ill., and Mrs. Peterson, the eldest of seven children, stayed home to care for her siblings while both her parents worked.

"The Trouble With Evan" 9 p.m. Tuesday, PBS-Ch. 11 Evan lies and steals. He sets fires "to see how it burns." He once attacked a young boy, grabbing him in a headlock and nearly choking him to death. He poured paint in his teacher's coffee "as a joke," tried to cash his father's check and disappeared for hours after being caught in school for smoking. Evan's father says he can't control him; his mother can't understand him and his teachers are afraid of him. This skinny kid with adorable puppy-dog eyes, is only 11. And he's sinking fast.

Services for Edward C. and Charles E. Ott will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the chapel at 4332 N. Elston Ave. Edward C. Ott, 82, a 28-year Chicago firefighter, died of lung cancer Monday in Ravenswood Hospital, where he had been hospitalized since September. His son, Charles, 41, died in his Northwest Side home one day later after a 16-year illness. Edward Ott is survived by his daughter, Patrica J. Bour, and five grandchildren. Charles Ott is survived by a daughter, Karin, and a son, Kevin.